Cold Start Drills after 1 month of No Live Fire

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  • Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
  • Went up to Burro Canyon today to eyeball the setup for this weekend's 2 Day CCW class.
    Thought I'd squeeze in some quick cold start drills -- honestly, I've been so busy teaching this summer, I haven't live fired for my own training since steel match in May.
    So to hold myself accountable, let's see how I did shooting 3 drills with my P10C from AIWB and Shadow 2 from OWB, no warm up and 1 attempt only.
    Cold start drills with no warm-up are a great way to honestly assess your performance on demand.
    1. Poker Card Drill: 5 shots at poker card size target at 5yds. 5 sec par.
    Shot it clean with P10C at what to me would be demo speed if I were to perform it for a class. Faster draw to 1st shot with Shadow 2 would be the aggressiveness to push myself to see where wheels fall off. In this case, not enough support grip and not looking at a precise spot.
    2. Bill Drill: 6 shots inside Alpha zone at 7yds.
    Shot both very consistently with super slow draw to 1st shot. At my best, I can almost break the 2sec barrier, so these attempts were so slow -- would've expected clean runs with tighter groups at that speed, so this tells me again, support grip and visual discipline have degraded without enough dry and live practice for 2 months.
    3. LAPS 2R2 Drill: 2 shots on body index card to slide lock, reload and 2 shots strong hand to head index card. 6 sec par.
    Have no issues making 6sec par. But definitely shooting faster than my vision.
    Besides the importance of using a timer to collect objective data, video is also a great tool to see if there's any unnecessary, inefficient structure or movement in my draw and presentation.
    Positive note is my structure looked good -- no unnecessary movement, like trying to move the head to the gun (tactical turtle), shoulders relaxed instead of lifting up all tense and elbows bent, not locked.
    That was 30 rounds total to give me instant feedback on what I'm retaining well, but where I've degraded so I can refocus my dry and live practice.
    Don't be afraid to push yourself to failure -- honest, humble practice isn't pretty.
    There's no perfection -- just progress.
    And purposeful practice doesn't require alot of rounds.

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